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Xbox 360 PC News by Robert Purchese
Bungie may finally be ready to announce the Halo project that was dropped suddenly from the Microsoft E3 presentation in July.
The developer's website features a splash-screen featuring a timer, and the timer runs out today at 3.07pm UK time.
Alongside the clock are some nondescript messages such as "please stay calm", "pardon our dust" and "proceed with caution".
These follow numerous puzzling events on the Bungie website of late, most revolving around a mysterious character called the Superintendent.
Bungie had, following E3, told us there would be a separate event to unveil this Halo product sometime this year - one where "people can interact with it".
We hope the mist clears somewhat this afternoon. We'll keep our eyes peeled.
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Triggerhappytel
25/09/08 @ 08:03
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"I reckon, from the images on that limited screen, it's a new Marathon game."
Yeah, I've been thinking this for a while. Didn't know there was any timer on Bungie's website, or anything, I just have a feeling Marathon is getting a remake/sequel. |
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Doctor_What
25/09/08 @ 08:06
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I'm more with kmittal82 on this one. Halo 3 bored me rigid. I kept playing it, waiting for the genius to slap me in the face, but what I got was a game that I'd played many years before but with shinier textures. The FPS genre has moved on from then and Halo3 just didn't keep up - then again, I play local co-op and can't be bothered playing the online modes which is where I'm told the best bits were.
And they stoel their entire script from the Aliens films... Just like every other FPS at the moment it seems. Anyway, I hope they do something new and unrelated to the snore inducing Halo universe. Not. More. Bloody. Space. Marines. |
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Moonprince
25/09/08 @ 08:18
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Been a couple of other released content in relation to this. Can't remember details but pointed towards it being in the HALO universe. Possibly fall of reach which would be awesome.
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NegativeZero
25/09/08 @ 08:36
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I can't see them doing a Marathon remake - Halo basically already is that. A direct remake of the content of Marathon, retooled to fit into the Halo universe would potentially work reasonably well, though.
Two of the possibilities thrown around are a squad-based Halo shooter (personally I suspect that another team at MGS is working on that) and a Halo MMO in the vein of Planetside. My secret hope is that they're faking us all out and it's a remake of Pathways into Darkness |
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thenastypasty
25/09/08 @ 08:39
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please be about fall of reach but played out in a ghost recon style that would be ace .
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Moonprince
25/09/08 @ 08:40
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Halo MMO in the vein of Planetside.
Didn't hear that one. Would be day one if so. Dam nthat would rock! |
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andywilkie35
25/09/08 @ 08:40
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I quite liked Halo 3, co-op campaign and multiplayer were great fun
If Marathon is indeed tied to Halo then I'd like this to be a new Marathon game |
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thenastypasty
25/09/08 @ 08:41
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please be about fall of reach but played out in a ghost recon style that would be ace .
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login_name
25/09/08 @ 08:49
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Personally I would love to see Bungie move away from Halo for a little while. A sequel to Oni would be a nice surprise.
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Thunderbolt!
25/09/08 @ 08:58
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Damn you login_name!
I wanted to be the first to suggest a Oni sequel! :) |
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Wow - so much hate for Halo . I don't understand it at all. If it's not your bag, fine. But calling it 'shit' says more about you than Halo - if you don't enjoy playing levels like The Ark or The Covenant, you should check your pulse. It's a fantastic series - I'm still playing Halo a year after release and I'm not doing that with any other game.
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Thunderbolt!
25/09/08 @ 09:09
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'It'll be a racing game'
As barmy as that sounds I would love a Halo racing game in the vein of Wipeout. I always loved riding the warthogs in Halo, some my best experieinces with the game on have been on the hog! Riding the warthog with the Arbiter mowing over the flood was gaming bliss IMO |
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NegativeZero
25/09/08 @ 09:10
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@Moonprince: If you connect the dots it's not unlikely. For example, Microsoft has done a lot of research on the technical side of that style of MMOFPS, load balancing and stuff. Plus there's the fact that Halo when it was originally announced at Macworld all those years ago was essentially a Planetside-style MMO. The idea was too far ahead of the technology at the time.
I guess we'll find out soon, 5 hours to go. |
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Coughthulu
25/09/08 @ 09:14
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Halo Warthog Racing
* 7 unique rings to race around * Pull off gnarly stunts as you flip and barrelroll your warthog * Co-op play: Get a friend on the Minigun/Gaussgun and blow your opponents to smithereens! * GPS: Cortana directs you to your goal! * Several unique modes: - Championship: Race against other warthogs and ghosts - Endurance: Do a full lap of a Halo! - Grunt Grindin': Run over as many grunts as you can within the time limit |
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I wouldnt be suprised to find out that it is an expansion to Halo 3 involving 6 new levels.
The evidence for such revovles around the new extra achievements for the game that Bungie weren't ready to comment on but are showing up on their xbox.com profiles. As part of these acheivements are 6(or 5 somehthing like that) skull achievements and that would indicate to me that it would be more single player levels (although one of the levels correlates to a new MP map apparantly but i cant imagine hunting for skulls on multiplayer maps) Just my tuppence |
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sergeantdisco
25/09/08 @ 09:23
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Oni sequel? Yes please, decent controls and a save system though please.
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farticusmaximus
25/09/08 @ 09:24
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@doragor
Don't waste your breath - hedbog is the single biggest Fantard on this forum, he'll diss any MS product even if it's the best thing in universe. As for Halo (all 3 of them), well it's the best console FPS series, period. There simply isnt another shooter that gets controls, pacing, story, locations right in the same way as Halo. It is the king, end of story. |
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InfiniteFury
25/09/08 @ 09:35
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I saw LBP yesterday on Youtube for the first time and the first thing I thought was Fury of the Furries with a snazzy physics engine.
Which is fine obviously but didn't look ground-breaking unless I've missed something fundamental. |
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gingerlink
25/09/08 @ 09:41
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going by the new achievements, this could all be an anticlimax and them just release 6 new halo 3 maps or something...
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farticusmaximus
25/09/08 @ 09:41
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@onyxbox
Yes, it actually is. Name me another console FPS with such a following, and which has spawned books, planned movies and merchandising. There's a reason it's so popular, and that reason is it's a perfectly balanced, engaging game. Regardless of whether *you* like it, the Halo series IS the most successful console FPS, and the vast majority if people will agree it's the best to play. |
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Thunderbolt!
25/09/08 @ 09:46
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Ssssh!, don't mention Halo AND LBP in the same comments thread or you will wake the trolls
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Myth, re-worked for consoles. No doubt employing some of those nice Ensemble chappies, now they're at a loose end. Makes perfect sense to me as a console RTS - no base building, just piling in and wreaking as much damage as possible. Gotta love those pyro dwarves. :-)
hedbog needs to revisit pre-Halo FPSs, methinks. Back when there were health bars and medkits (yes Halo 1 had these, but Halo 2 and 3 didn't), in-level loading scenes, no seamless transition between internal and external locations, the AI was crap and had no personality (although 1 seemed to be the best for this, oddly), you could inexplicably carry enough armaments to take over a decent-sized African nation, invisible barriers blocked your progress wherever you went. Yeah, the Halo series did nothing for the genre at all.... |
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Dunno if it's the best console fps ever. Think that that is something for every man to decide for himself. It does however get everything exactly right. This is an extremely difficult thing to do. Was playing resistance 1 again yesterday after a game of H3 and it suprised me how nearly there it is on most things but just not quite. Controls i.e. where almost good but felt just a bit on the short side 'short', which imo is a big interaction problem that many games seem to struggle with.
But then again, bungie can rely on some of the biggest play testing facilities in the world so I suppose that it just comes down to having more resources at hand. |
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SpaceMidget75
25/09/08 @ 09:59
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I agree that it should/could be an MMOFPS.
- The Halo setting is perfect for this. - The current Halo MP mechanics lend themselves well to this migration (vehicles etc) - Bungie wanted to do this in the first place. - MS Research have made some pretty fucking clever P2P code for for adding hundreds of players to a game. - Sony's MAG will need a competing product. - The previous teasers all point to it being in the Haloverse. - What the fuck else would it be if it is in the Haloverse. ;) |
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Personally I would love to see Bungie move away from Halo for a little while. A sequel to Oni would be a nice surprise.
That'd actually be ace. Shitty story and rough around the edges but I thought it was terrific fun, although I was pretty young when I played it. They could make something great with today's technology though. |
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WestBullet
25/09/08 @ 10:13
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All the Halo bashing does get a little boring after a while.
The fact of the matter is that it changed FPS games forever, particularly on consoles. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on whether they enjoyed the game but this is just a fact. For this reason alone, the series (particularly the first game) deserves respect. Of course other games will have come out that some people feel are better... but halo was first and started it, so there! It must be said that the Half Life series has continued in its own little bubble though. |
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farticusmaximus
25/09/08 @ 10:14
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@Xerx3s
"Dunno if it's the best console fps ever. Think that that is something for every man to decide for himself." Aye, obviously it's not to everyone's taste, but looking at it objectively there hasnt been another FPS that comes even close to having the following Halo does. |
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NegativeZero
25/09/08 @ 11:07
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@login_name, bioreit: hate to be the one to piss in your coffee, but unfortunately Bungie hasn't owned Myth or Oni since before they were acquired by Microsoft. After Myth II, Take2, who were Bungie's distributor at the time, decided to trade the share they had in Bungie in return for the rights to Myth. It's entirely possible we could see a new Myth game, but it would likely carry a 2K Games label (or possibly a Rockstar), not a Bungie one. Oni was sold to Gathering of Developers, who were later snapped up by Take-Two as well. I'd love to see Oni resurrected and redone to meet its full potential, the final product was really a shade of what it could have been and you'd think the game would do better in today's market than it did back then, too.
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